{"id":9735,"date":"2020-10-21T13:37:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/a-propos\/nos-nouvelles\/walter-wittich-recipiendaire-du-10e-prix-annuel-du-joyce-thompson-jt-award\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:43:55","slug":"walter-wittich-recipiendaire-du-10e-prix-annuel-du-joyce-thompson-jt-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/walter-wittich-recipiendaire-du-10e-prix-annuel-du-joyce-thompson-jt-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Wittich \u2013 Recipient of the 10th Annual Joyce Thompson (JT) Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Press release<\/h2>\n<p>We are excited to announce that Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/member\/walter-wittich-ph-d\/\"><strong>Walter Wittich<\/strong><\/a> @WalterWittich, Associate Professor at the University of Montreal @uMontreal_news in the School of Optometry, and CRIR site representative and resident researcher at the Centre de r\u00e9adaptation Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay du CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l\u2019 \u00cele-de-Montr\u00e9al and the CRIR\/Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille du CISSS de la Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie-Centre is the recipient of the <strong>10<sup>th<\/sup> Annual JT Award<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The JT Award was established in 2011 by Rotary Cheshire Homes and the Canadian Helen Keller Center @CHKCinfo to recognize the efforts and achievements of individuals, consumer groups or service providers who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the Canadian Deafblind community in the areas of: Awareness, Expansion and Involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wittich joins an illustrious list of past winners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2010 JOYCE THOMPSON (JT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE)<\/li>\n<li>2011 Jane Sayer (Manitoba) Past President of the Canadian National Society of the Deaf-Blind (CNSDB) and Coordinator at the Resource Centre for Manitoban who are Deaf-blind<\/li>\n<li>2012 Elio Riggillo (Ontario) Consumer Relations Coordinator at the Canadian Hellen Keller Center (Ontario)<\/li>\n<li>2013 Eddy Morten (British Columbia) Canadian Paralympic athlete, Coordinator of the Deafblind Services Society of British Columbia&#8217;s Volunteer Intervention Program<\/li>\n<li>2014 Joan Mactavish (Ontario) Interpretor of Mae Brown, the first Canadian women with deafblindness to get a University degree (Ontario)<\/li>\n<li>2015 Roxanna Spruyt-Rock (Ontario)CEO at DeafBlind Ontario Services (Ontario)<\/li>\n<li>2016 Cindy Accardi (Ontario)Executive Director, Rotary Cheshire Homes, now merged with Canadian Helen Keller Centre (Ontario)<\/li>\n<li>2017 Megan McHugh (Ontario) President of the Canadian National Society for Deafblind (Ontario)<\/li>\n<li>2018 Warren Wakefield (Ontario) Member of the Rotary Cheshire Homes Board of Directors<\/li>\n<li>2019 Stan Monroe (Nova Scotia) Founding Member of the Canadian Deafblind Association and Information Officer for Deafblind International<\/li>\n<li>2020 Walter Wittich (Quebec) Associate Professor at the University of Montreal in the School of Optometry, Inaugural Chair of Research Network at Deafblind International<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The award will be presented virtually on October 27<sup>th<\/sup> 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release We are excited to announce that Dr. Walter Wittich @WalterWittich, Associate Professor at the University of Montreal @uMontreal_news in the School of Optometry, and CRIR site representative and resident researcher at the Centre de r\u00e9adaptation Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay du CIUSSS&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/walter-wittich-recipiendaire-du-10e-prix-annuel-du-joyce-thompson-jt-award\/\" class=\"read-more btn\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">about Walter Wittich \u2013 Recipient of the 10th Annual Joyce Thompson (JT) 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